M-60 (Michigan highway)
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M-60 is an east-west trunkline and state highway in Michigan. Total length 105 miles. Like all state roads, an easement-for-public-use exists 55ft in each direction from the centre of the road into properties. Such easements were ruled to be "untaxable" by the Michigan Supreme Court under property millages. For the most part, M-60 follows the path of an old Indian Trail known as the Washtenaw Trail.
History and characteristics
M-60 is one of the original Michigan state highways, so designated (with subsequent re-alignments and some truncations) since 1918.
Uncharacteristically for a Michigan state highway that is not a freeway or expressway, most of which go from town center to town down a main street, M-60 was improved early with bypasses around Union City, Tekonsha, Homer, and Concord. These were not constructed with limited access to abutting property, so as the towns grew, businesses appeared along the bypasses.
Before Interstate 94 was built, M-60 was one of the more heavily-traveled Michigan state highways as an alternative to the more urban and congested old US 12 to its north through Kalamazoo and Battle Creek and old and in some parts hilly US-112. Interstate 94 has relegated it to a more local highway in character.
M-60 passes through Cass County, St. Joseph County, Branch County, Calhoun County, and Jackson County.
A "station" of the Underground Railroad is visible and accessible in Vandalia. Spring Arbor University is located along M-60 in Spring Arbor Township, Michigan.
A spur route, BUS M-60, connects with downtown Niles. The section at its eastern terminus west of Jackson is full freeway, and the section at its western terminus is a dual-carriageway expressway. A short segment of M-60 coinciding with
Junctions with numbered highways
- US-12 east of Niles (western terminus)
- M-62 Cassopolis
- M-40 Jones
- US-131 and M-86 Three Rivers
- M-66 two miles east of Mendon and two miles south of Athens (M-60 does not go through Athens)
- Interstate 69 near Tekonsha
- M-99 Homer
- Interstate 94 northwest of Jackson (eastern terminus)
Termini
Western terminus
The western terminus of M-60 is the junction with U.S. 12 southeast of Niles, close to the boundary between Cass County and Berrien County.Until the 1960s, M-60 coincided with US 112 and in turn US 12 to New Buffalo, Michigan. The M-60 designation preceded that of US 112 and US 12 and existed when the section of US 112 did not exist in westernmost lower Michigan.
Eastern terminus
The eastern terminus is the junction with Interstate 94 at exit 136 northwest of Jackson.External links
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